sboak

Datadog | Engineering, Product, Product Design | NYC, Paris, Remote | datadoghq.com/jobs-engineering

At Datadog, we’re on a mission to build the best monitoring platform in the world. We operate at high scale—trillions of data points per day—and high availability, providing always-on alerting, visualization, and tracing for our customers' infrastructure and applications around the globe.

We're looking for front-end and back-end engineers, product designers, and data scientists to join the team

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There was a similar project done for the NYC subway system done 6 years ago: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=69...

We have a nice write-up in Stackshare about our stack: http://stackshare.io/opsee-co/how-opsee-chose-a-container-or...

Thanks! It's wonderful to hear that the thing our team worked harder on than anything else is appreciated :)

The biggest difference is in the way we handle checks inside AWS. When you add our EC2 Instance we automatically discover your infrastructure and track changes. When you create health checks for groups and other dynamic AWS resources (ELBs, RDS, ECS, etc...) we track membership and automatically update your checks with no maintenance.

Hi, I'm Steve and I run product at Opsee. There are a few important differences: 1. The rich assertion language in Opsee means we're checking for more than availability - we're looking for correct responses too. This makes us more useful for checking APIs, since services can fail and still return a 200 2. We're measuring round-trip time for every check - Pingdom charges a lot more for this than their standard checks 3. Usability. Our integrations with Slack and Pagerduty are really simple to set up, our UI is responsive and well...better 4. We can also health check inside your AWS environment when you add our EC2 Instance, giving you more complete coverage. We actually do a lot of cool stuff inside AWS.

James Howard Kunstler gave an incredibly sharp, funny talk called "The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs" on both the history and design problems of the suburbs. https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_sub...

I've been using Sketch for over a year now, and though it's been a valuable tool (and the integration with Framer is wonderful) it continues to be plagued by bugs and crashes in even mundane daily use. They proudly announce new features while ignoring the toll these issues take on the designers who depend on their software. I'm posting this in the hope that they'll acknowledge and address some of these issues quickly.

Here are screen grabs of just a few of the most obvious bugs I've encountered recently: https://twitter.com/sboak/status/651518759690108928 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/704447216191078400 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/676568026020372481 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/664540876606017536 https://twitter.com/sboak/status/651897512538693632

Thanks! Fixed.

Yes, definitely. That will become more clear when we launch support for RDS/SQL health checks in the next few weeks. The biggest differentiator between us and these OSS tools is ease-of-use and maintenance. With Opsee there are no configurations to manage, YAML files to create, or agents to run. Setup is dead simple, and you never need to maintain health checks. Our checks react instantly to changes in your infrastructure.

Co-founder here. The big difference, compared with tools like Pingdom, is that we're operating inside your environment. We can tell you where the failure happened and give you tools to fix it. We're like Pingdom for microservice environments, helping developers know their services, inside or outside the firewall, are working as expected.

I'm going to risk a plug since our service is highly relevant. If you're using AWS, Opsee will let you define service-level health checks and automatically detect instance membership. You can set detailed assertions on response bodies, including JSON keys, to verify that your services are responding as expected. This all works inside your environment, running checks from an instance we spin up. More info at opsee.com

It's fascinating to see a book approaching data visualization from first principles, without any preconceived notions or the baggage and confusion of modern tools and techniques

This is the best thing to come out of New Jersey since Jon Stewart

For Design topics, check out 99% Invisible (http://99percentinvisible.org/) and Design Details (http://www.designdetails.fm/). I feel silly mentioning This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) since it seems like everyone's heard of it, but the quality of the show is just so incredible I can't leave it out. There's the quality of TAL's storytelling and then there's everything else... Radiolab is also incredible (http://www.radiolab.org/) for more technical/scientific topics, but it's definitely not specific to engineering/software.

Before looking at arbitrary visualization patterns, have a look at some useful precedents. Truecar, for example, (https://www.truecar.com/prices-new/honda/fit-pricing/) visualizes similar data in a clean and readable way. Google Flights might be another (https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=SFO;t=JFK;d=2015-03...).

There are some visualization patterns that might be useful to you for this exercise, like interactive small multiples (http://projects.flowingdata.com/tut/linked_small_multiples_d...) to compare suppliers' prices over time. Think a bit about the trends in the data you tease out (as you say, thinks like prices over time and comparing alternatives) and go in search of examples that try to achieve similar goals.

His "stainless" series, particularly this shot of the 6 train in NYC, is incredible: http://www.opiomgallery.com/cspdocs/artwork/images/adam_magy...

I keep checking for a place to buy prints online but they don't seem to be available.